Conrad's Trojan Horses

by Henthorne, Tom; White, Andrea

• ISBN13: 9780896726338
• ISBN10: 0896726339
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-31
• Publisher: Texas Tech Univ Pr

Summary

"Tom Henthorne counters that Conrad's work can be best understood in relation to that of such early twentieth-century writers as S. K. Ghosh and Solomon Plaatje - postcolonialists who developed innovative ways of cloaking their anti-imperialism when working with British publishers. In Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands, and his first short stories, Conrad attacks imperialism overtly. Yet as he began to work with more conservative publishers to acquire a larger, imperial audience, he developed a Trojan Horse strategy, deliberately obfuscating his radical politics through his use of multiple narrators, irony, free indirect discourse, and other devices that are now associated with modernism." "Sensitive to the breadth of his prospective audience, Henthorne offers an engaging and accessible analysis of Conrad's canon. He also considers critical responses to Conrad and the influence Conrad has had upon modernist and postcolonial writers."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Tom Henthorne is associate professor of English and women's and gender studies at Pace University in New York City.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 3
Imperialism, Hybridity, and Conrad's Postcolonial Aesthetic	p. 15
"There Will Be Fighting": Insurgency and Postcoloniality in Almayer's Folly and An Outcast of the Islands	p. 32
"But I Should Like to Sell Them": Conrad's First Stories and the Short-Fiction Market	p. 64
Tricks of the Tale: Misdirection and Subterfuge in The Nigger of the "Narcissus," "Karain," and "Youth"	p. 81
"You-Even You!-May Miss It": Heart of Darkness and Conrad's Trojan Horse Strategy	p. 109
"The Onlookers See Most of the Game": Marlow, Jim, and Postcolonial Patusan	p. 132
Irony upon Irony: The Changing World and Changing Techniques in Nostromo	p. 153
Irony, Duplicity, and the Postcolonial Aesthetic	p. 172
Notes	p. 175
Works Cited	p. 207
Index	p. 219
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